Conference on School Safety: Technologies, Research, and Emerging Concepts

On January 23-25, 2002 the Center for Justice Leadership and Management, George Mason University, the National Institute of Justice, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services cosponsored a conference on school safety. The conference, School Safety: Technologies, Research, and Emerging Concepts, was held in Arlington, Virginia and provided attendees the opportunity to learn about strategies and approaches that can contribute to safe schools and to attain a basic understanding of appropriate and inappropriate uses of technologies. Topics covered during the conference included surveillance cameras, drug detection, entry and exit control, justice based after school programs, assessment of School Resource Officer programs, theft deterrence, problem solving, digital recorders, critical incident planning, SchoolCOP crime mapping software, targeted violence prevention, gang resistance training, concealed weapons detection, and legal issues regarding technology and information sharing. Over 300 law enforcement officials, educators, and technologists from throughout the United States attended the conference.

Some of the presentation information has been graciously provided by the agencies for public viewing.

The slideshow "Creating a Safe and Nurturing Learning Environment" details how to identify bullying behavior, how victims are affected, and how to prevent bullying behavior from developing into a serious institutional issue.

"Bomb Presentation and Display" illustrates various homemade bomb forms and provides a quiz to test "What-If" responses.

"The Events at Lake Worth Middle School" details a chronology of events from the Florida school shooting where Nathaniel Brazill murdered a teacher.

"School Based Problem Solving" details a case study at a Florida high school investigating solutions to rising truancy levels .

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